# The Young Visiters — Character guide

> Key figures in The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford.

- [Mr. Salteena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/mr_salteena.md): Mr. Salteena arrives in London clutching a letter and a first-class ticket, eager to be remade by grand company. His ignorance of levees, cocked hats, and which fork to use is matched only by his touching faith that good
- [Ethel Monticue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/ethel_monticue.md): Ethel arrives at the Crystal Palace on Bernard's arm, all blue velvet and ruge, and promptly begins sizing up the room. Her affections shift with the furniture, yet her ambition is oddly innocent: she wants a grand weddi
- [Bernard Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/bernard_clark.md): Bernard Clark is the book's golden boy: handsome, well-connected, and generous with his Gaierty Hotel rooms and his blazer. He loves Ethel to the bitter end and blushes at his own thoughts of marriage, yet he also frowns
- [Edward Procurio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/edward_procurio.md): Procurio glides through the Earl's compartments with a superior smile, laying out razors, deciding bath temperatures, and improvising a court costume from black evening wear and silver paper. He is at once servant and st
- [Horace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/horace.md): Horace appears at the station to present the Times and Tit-Bits with a low bow, then finds Salteena a corner seat and stows his bags with care. His attentiveness lets Salteena play the lord, crossing his legs and flingin
- [Francis Minnit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/francis_minnit.md): Minnit receives his instructions with closed eyes and murmured thanks, asking only when his wages might be paid. His quiet, ailing presence at the threshold of Bernard's house marks the boundary between domestic order an
- [Earl of Clincham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/earl_of_clincham.md): Clincham is the aristocratic neighbor whose door Mr. Salteena, heart beating, finally dares to ring, hoping for polish in Society ways. He wears his small portion of royal blood lightly, waving a careless hand at the ver
- [Alfred Salteena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/alfred_salteena.md): A relative of Mr. Salteena who appears briefly.
- [Lady Gay Finchling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/lady_gay_finchling.md): A fashionable lady who attends social gatherings.
- [Alf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_young_visiters_se/characters/alf.md): A minor servant or acquaintance mentioned in passing.

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